The right secured to the citizen by the constitutional inhibition of _ex post facto_ legislation forms part of his, or her, privileges and immunities; for though the inhibition cannot be said to be derived from the common law,—and may be said to be essentially statutory, it has become recognized as a fundamental right and of rank with any other fundamental right. [489] Hollinger _v._ Davis, 146 U. S., 314 (1892). [490] _Idem._ [491] Boyd _v._ United States, 116 U. S., 616 (1886). The right covers “persons, houses, papers, and effects.” Art. iv. [492] Harris _v._ People, 128 Illinois, 585 (1889). [493] Art. v., Act of February 11, 1893, Statutes at Large, 443; Brown _v._ Walker, 161 U. S., 591 (1896). [494] Amendment VI. Mattox _v._ United States, 156 U. S., 237 (1895). [495] _Idem._ [496] In the original the clauses are not numbered, nor is there any title to the document. It begins, “WE THE PEOPLE.” [497] See Amendments XIII., XIV., XV., XVI. [498] See Amendment XVII. [499] See Amendment XII. [500] See Amendment XI. [501] See Amendments XIII., XIV., XV. [502] The word, “the,” being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The Word “Thirty” being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words “is tried” being interlined between the thirty-second and thirty-third Lines of the first Page and the Word “the” being interlined between the forty-third and forty-fourth Lines of the second Page. [503] New Jersey withdrew her consent to the ratification on March 27, 1868. [504] Oregon withdrew her consent to the ratification October 15, 1868. [505] Ohio withdrew her consent to the ratification in January, 1868. [506] North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia had previously rejected the amendment. [507] New York withdrew her consent to the ratification January 5, 1870. [508] Ohio had previously rejected the amendment May 4, 1869. [509] New Jersey had previously rejected the amendment. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks corrected. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Page 1: Duplicate book title removed by Transcriber. Page 148: “and another nation” was printed as “notion”; changed here. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Essentials of American Constitutional Law, by Francis Newton Thorpe